Re: HTML to XML

David Megginson (david@megginson.com)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:44:42 -0400


Peter Murray-Rust writes:

> The SwingSet (from com.sun.java) has HTML functionality. I'm not
> sure exactly what, but it can read in HTML and render it. Since
> Swing is very well written (and based in part on SGML ideas) it
> wouldn't surprise me if much of what we want is hidden within
> it. There is a list for Swing at http://www.eos.dk/archive/swing -
> perhaps someone could ask.

A quick peek inside swingall.jar shows that there is a package
com.sun.java.swing.text.html. Within the package (and judging from
namesa alone), the following classes look like good starting points:

- com.sun.java.swing.text.html.HTMLDocument
- com.sun.java.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit
- com.sun.java.swing.text.html.HTMLStyleCallback
- com.sun.java.swing.text.html.HTMLWriter
- com.sun.java.swing.text.html.StyleSheet

I have not had a chance to dig through the JavaDoc's yet, but it may
be that we can write at least a partial SAX driver on top of this.

All the best,

David

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